Creating a new Subversion repository:Local machine Edit

Created 10/16/2006, updated 5/18/2017

This is the procedure I use for creating a new repository on my local machine.

Repository creation

sudo svnadmin create ~/Developer/svnrep/project-name
sudo chown -R svn:svn ~/Developer/svnrep/project-name

I’ve also made a script, new-repository.sh as a shortcut for this operation.

Initial import

mkdir trunk tags branches
mv "project-files" trunk/
svn import http://localhost:8080/svnrep/preoject-name

Initial checkout of working copy

mkdir pre-import
mv branches tags trunk pre-import/
svn co http://localhost:8080/svnrep/project-name/trunk trunk

See also

Creating a new Subversion repository

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